Murder At Teesri Manzil 302(Zee5)
Starring Irrfan, Ranveer Shorey, Deepal Shaw
Directed by Navneet Baz Saini
Rating: 0 star
Where did Zee5 find this one??!!!!Some stories are better left unsaid…and unseen. This one is perhaps the worst film of Irrfan’s dismayingly abbreviated career,and the worst disservice that could be done to the much-missed actor’s memory.
Shot when Irrfan didn’t know any better, this ,ha ha, suspense thriller set in Bangkok is about an unhappy wife, played by Deepal Shaw, her grumpy stupid entrepreneur husband played by Ranveer Shorey and a mysterious man Irrfan who seems to kidnap the wife for ransom money.
Nothing is at it seems, of course.And I am not talking so much about the plot as the dubious intentions of this atrocious film’s architects. They are in this probably for reasons that we cannot fathom from the outside.Where I sat trying to watch the unconditionally unwatchable film, all I saw was a fatuous script made worse by a director whose execution is aa subtle as a firing squad.
Filled with lingering loopholes and yawning gaps Murder At Teesri Manzil brazenly borrows a part of its unwieldy title (to match the unwieldy narration) from Vijay Anand’s suspense classic.
But if a rose by any other name smells just as sweet, shit by any other name would stink just as much. And this one is a stinker masquerading as a movie experience that everyone associated with it must have forgotten as a sad mistake. Until Zee5 in all its wisdom, decided to rescue it from the trashcan.
So is this the worst film of the year? No. Because this is not even a film. It is a disjointed disembodied melange of shots scenes and footage assembled with amateurish enthusiasm by a team which probably came into some surplus money from an unexpected source. Just how they managed to convince actors like Irrfan and Shorey to be part of this scam is beyond my comprehension.
Oh yes, there is Lucky Ali playing an investigative officer, strumming dimwitted songs on a guitar in a disguise that makes him look like clown in a village circus.Lucky’s fans should take action.
To fans of Irrfan,I have only one excuse on behalf of this travesty . Forgive them. They know not what they do.
